Going to be quite scant on details but…

I was out and about, and was messaged by two friends independently saying they were surprised to see me in a YouTube video.

Confused, I asked what they were on about. Turns out, a guy I gave advice to had then started recording me towards the end of our interaction without telling me, and has, weeks later, uploaded it as part of a longer video.

I was pretty tired at the time and doing the guy a favour (out of annoyance), and I don’t like a few things, one of those being that he put me online (which, within hours has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times).

What can I do? I have already messaged him to tell him to remove me, but this seems like a ridiculous invasion of privacy.

  • roofuskit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    17 days ago

    Photographing or filming someone in a public space has always been very legally distinct from recording a private conversation in pretty much every jurisdiction.

    • lud@lemm.ee
      3·
      16 days ago

      Yes of course but recording a private conversation has been legal before and I couldn’t find any good indications that it has changed under the GDPR.

      The law essentially says that it’s illegal to record or listen to private conversations which you aren’t a part of using technical instruments.

      So it’s legal to press your ear against a wall but it’s illegal to use any tech to listen/record to anything.